Stephen Bottomley is Associate Dean and Professor of Commercial Law in the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University. He joined the Law School in 1988, having taught for eight years in the Legal Studies Dept, Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education in Sydney. He has taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses in corporate and takeovers law, and corporate governance.

His book The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate Governance (2007, Ashgate Publishing, UK) was awarded the 2008 Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize for the most outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship. He is the co-author of Law in Context (Federation Press), now in its 3rd edition.